title: The Mortimer-Filkins test of problem drinking: a review of psychometric properties.
abstract: This paper contains a literature review of the psychometric properties of the Mortimer-Filkins test of problem drinking. The test was devised initially to identify problem drinkers from among drink-driving offenders. It was initially validated against a general population, and has since been used with worksite populations. The test demonstrates high degrees of internal-consistency reliability, test-retest reliability and concurrent validity. It has been shown to be predictive of drink-driver racidivism and the occurrence of work injuries and injury-related absences.
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Behavioural Science in Relation to Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Webb
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011594:Psychometrics